Now, over to the process of Protectoral Stamp.
First important thing: Location of the office, its in summer plaza in chandani chowk: To get there, here are the directions: Note, I assume you ahve reached Chandani Chowk already; Now, take the road which goes towards the Commercial Market, after a drive of about a minute, minute and half, you will reach a small round-about. Just before reaching the round-about, look towards your left and you will see the board of the Protectoral Office (Ground Floor, and at the very corner of the building)(Green board with white fonts). So you've got to the office. What to do there:
First, the documents that you'll need:
1) Original passport with stamped visa.
2) Photocopy of the first and second page of the passport.
3) Photocopy of the visa.
4) Offer Letter/Contract. If you don't have these, you'll need to sign an affidavit. I had the offer letter, so didn't have to do this so I dont know much about the contents of the affidavit or where to get it from. But since I saw a lot of people carrying very SIMILAR LOOKING affidavits
, my hunch is that you can get this done through agents sitting outside the office.
5) The Letter of Introduction which is provided along with your visa.
6) Original NICOP receipt. They'll just see this and return it to you and ask you to submit it's photocopy.
7) Photocopy of the NICOP receipt.
8) Photocopy of the ID card of your Insurance Nominee.
9) Copy of CNIC.
10) One passport sized photograph to be attached to the application form.
Now, over to the application process:
1) Take all these documents to the counter. The guy at the counter will ask you where you are going. I think he is not authorized to accept the documents for CANADA work permit applicants without prior approval from the manager in the office. He will direct you to the manager. So you got to the manager, he will see your documents, staple them together and ask you to take them back to the guy on the main counter who will now have a look at the documents and give you the forms and return you the stapled documents as well, since you have to submit these document back to the same COUNTER guy along with filled forms and bank receipts. If the manager feels he needs some additional documents, he will mention this on the stapled documents.
2) Now, the forms that the guy at the counter gives you are as follows:
i) Emigrant/Employee Registration Form.
ii) Insurance form.
iii) National bank chalans for registration fee. Note, the Welfare Fee mentioned on the main application form is to be submitted to Habib Bank and Protectoral office does not normally provide the deposit slips for HBL. You have to obtain them from the bank (More on this later).
iv) Consent/Declaration Form.
Here's how you proceed:
STEP 1: Fill all the forms and also enter your name and passport number and father's name on the chalans of National Bank.
STEP 2: The insurance documents have to be submitted at the Insurance counter within the Protectoral Office. You'll understand all the different counters once you get to the office so don't worry about this. Now, here what you submit at the insurance counter:
i) Filled insurance form.
ii) CNIC photocopy of the person you nominate for your insurance.
iii) Your Original Passport.
iv) Your Original CNIC.
v) Insurance fee of PKR 2000.
The guy at the insurance counter will collect the above mentioned docs and money and ask you to return after 1 Hour.
In the meantime, you do the following:
STEP 3: Go to National Bank in Commercial Market. Submit the fee chalan that you got along with your application package and pay the require amount of PKR 2500. NBP will keep two copies of the chalan and return one to you. Keep it safe since you have to attach this to your main application that you submit at the end.
STEP 4: Go to Habib Bank, also in commercial market. Here, you have to submit the WELFARE fee, which I think goes to Overseas Pakistanis Foundation. Ask them for chalan/deposit slips for protectoral office. They will give it to you. Fill your details on these chalans/deposit slips and again keep your receipts safe for the same reason as mentioned at the end of STEP 3. Note that HBL will return you two copies of the receipt after payment, Green and Pink.
Now, the advantage of the Commercial Bank Branch is that it is very close to the protectoral office and NBP, so everything can be done in almost the same place. However, the disadvantage is that its usually very busy, especially since its always full of agents who are carrying hundreds of receipts for their hundreds of clients. I faced another issue at this branch, they told me that they were out of deposit slips :-[. So, the ALTERNATIVE: There are 3 other Habib bank branches where you can submit this fee. I remember two, which are Murree Road Branch and I-8 Markaz Branch. I went to the Murree Road Branch and got everything sorted there.
STEP 5: Get back to the protectoral office, if it has been an hour since you submitted your insurance documents, then go to the insurance counter. Tell them your name and they will return you your passport, CNIC, Original Bima Policy Document/Receipt and its pink copy.
STEP 5: Enter all the 4 fee chalan/receipt numbers (NICOP (Tracking number mentioned on the NICOP receipt), NBP, HBL, Insurance) in the main Emigrant/Employee Registration Form.
STEP 6: Arrange your documents as follows:
i) Emigrant/Employee Registration Form.
ii) The three payment Receipts. (Note: Here, attach the PINK copy of the insurance receipt and GREEN COPY of the HBL Receipt)
iii) All the required documents mentioned at the beginning of this message.
iv) The consent declaration form.
Hold all these documents in one hand. In the other hand, hold these two things:
i) Your original passport.
ii) ORIGINAL Bema policy/Insurance document/receipt.
STEP 7: Go to the counter where you went in STEP 1, i.e., the guy who originally gave you the application package to OFFICIALLY start this HELLISH day for you
. The guy at the counter will staple everything together as per requirement, and ask you to return at 16:00 Hours/4 pm to collect your passport.
STEP 8: Wait, wait andddddddddd wait.
STEP 9: Go for document collection at 16:00.
Note: Normally, its mentioned on boards inside the office that the applications are accepted only till 12:00 noon. However, at least yesterday, they accepted applications till 13:00. Don't count on it though, it all depends on their mood!!!!!